The United States Artists Fellows, with Louisvillian Ed White (center), during the awards ceremony led by Tim Robbins and hosted by the Getty Museum earlier this month.

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"If you track government support for artists over the past 100 years, it's a boom or bust cycle," said Katharine DeShaw, executive director for United States Artists, a national organization founded in 2005 that annually awards 50 artists $50,000 each. ...